Does Phriction (the wiki offered as part of Phabricator) offer a markup feature like the Templates in MediaWiki?
In the past I have used MediaWiki (the software that Wikipedia is run on) as an internal wiki at a company. This means that I am relatively fluent in its markup, features and terminology.
Within MediaWiki there is a powerful feature, Templates, that allows you to insert boiler plate markup using a pseudonym such as {{foo}}. This is a user definable entry that causes instances of {{foo}} on a page to be replaced by markup test such as A simple example bit of _data_ to fill a space.
More complex templates could be created by nesting one template inside another. A call to {{foo}} might include a call to {{bar}} within it and so on. This allowed you to form complex bits of text from simple lumps.
The really interesting feature of templates was in using parameters with them. Ideally this is what I would like to use within Phriction, if possible. A template with a parameter is called by something like {{foo|var1}}. Now inside the text you can insert the 'var1' into the generated text to give you something such as var1 is a simple example bit of _data_ to fill a space.
What you really use this for is something like an RFC link template. You can add {{rfc|123}} to a page then have the template generate some markup like [[ https://tools.ietf.org/rfc/rfc123.txt | RFC123 ]]. What is the advantage of this? Well perhaps you decide next week that you want all your RFC's to reference the copies on https://www.rfc-editor.org/ instead. Or you decide that you want links to both the .txt on ietf.org and rfc-editor.org. By using the template you can create a single article to edit in the future to make a consistent view across your wiki.
Any suggestions that can provide a step towards the above goal would be gratefully received.
No, Phriction is just Remarkup. https://secure.phabricator.com/book/phabricator/article/remarkup/